The Latest News from Across the FOSS Universe
Google has been the number one search engine because of its accurate results and the fact that it “pays” for it. As reported by the Business Insider, Google is set to pay Apple $9 billion this year for staying the default search engine in iPhone. According to an estimate by Rod Hall from Goldman Sach, […]
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According to a report by Forbes, the FBI recently forced an iPhone X owner to unlock the phone using his face. This is the first known case in which feds used the FaceID feature to get access to some suspect’s smartphone. Last year when Apple launched iPhone X with FaceID feature, legal questions were raised: […]
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On Friday, Facebook announced that they faced yet another data breach which led to the exposure of as many as 50 million accounts. The attackers managed to grab hold of the tokens of accounts through ‘View As’ feature of the social media platform. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the leading […]
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Google engineers are working to add Apple Magic Trackpad 2 Linux support to the mainline Linux Kernel. Although it’s been 3 years since Apple announced the Magic Trackpad 2 Linux users have needed to rely on out-of-tree patches and drivers to use the multi-touch device with desktop Linux distributions like Ubuntu, in both wired and […]
This post, Google Working on Apple Magic Trackpad 2 Linux Support, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
If you want to set-up touchpad gestures on Linux, but don’t know how, you should check out the following app. The app is called ‘Gestures’ and is described by its developer as being a “minimal Gtk+ GUI app for libinput-gestures”. Windows and macOS both come with a variety of useful touchpad gestures pre-configured out of the box. […]
This post, Customize Linux Touchpad Gestures with ‘Gestures’ App, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
Due to the continuous torrent of data breaches and scandals like Cambridge Analytica, Tim Berners-Lee is devastated. To fight the powerful forces of the Internet, world wide web inventor has worked on a project called “Solid.” In collaboration with MIT, the open-source project is build to make web decentralized, snatch power from big players like Facebook, Google, Amazon, […]
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Elon Musk has decided to resign as the chairman of Tesla, and a fine of $20 million has been imposed on the electric car maker company as per the settlement reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC complained on Thursday that Musk lied in his series of tweets related to taking Tesla […]
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The software enabling this technology comes in many forms, with Docker as the most popular. The recent rise in popularity of container technology within the data center is a direct result of its portability and ability to isolate working environments, thus limiting its impact and overall footprint to the underlying computing system. To understand the technology completely, you first need to understand the many pieces that make it all possible. Join us this weekend as we learn about Containers.
Truth be told, certain software applications in the wild may need to be controlled or limited—at least for the sake of stability and, to some degree, security. Far too often, a bug or just bad code can disrupt an entire machine and potentially cripple an entire ecosystem. Fortunately, a way exists to keep those same applications in check. Control groups (cgroups) is a kernel feature that limits, accounts for and isolates the CPU, memory, disk I/O and network's usage of one or more processes.
Part I of this Deep Dive on containers introduces the idea of kernel control groups, or cgroups, and the way you can isolate, limit and monitor selected userspace applications. Here, I dive a bit deeper and focus on the next step of process isolation—that is, through containers, and more specifically, the Linux Containers (LXC) framework.
Kubernetes is an open-source cluster manager that makes it easy to run Docker and other containers in production environments of all types (on-premises or in the public cloud). What is now an open community project came from development and operations patterns pioneered at Google to manage complex systems at internet scale.
Editor Petros Koutoupis spent some time chatting with Craig McLuckie, CEO of the leading Kubernetes solutions provider Heptio. Centered around both developers and system administrators, Heptio's products and services simplify and scale the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Just in case you’re not aware, Facebook isn’t a social networking website. In other words, as Edward Snowden says, it’s a surveillance company that sells your data as well. The recent Cambridge Analytica debacle has reinforced the notion that Facebook could be misused to profile users and sell their data. Just recently, Facebook also confirmed the […]
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In an official blog post, Facebook has confirmed that at least 50 million user accounts have been affected due to a newly discovered security flaw. The bug that has wrecked this havoc is related to Facebook’s “View As” feature, which allows you to view your profile as seen by some other user. By exploiting this flaw, […]
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Ubuntu Budgie 18.10 is released in October and it promises to be the best release yet. A raft of major improvements are touched on in the preview notes for Ubuntu Budgie 18.10, which spread its wings alongside the regular Ubuntu 18.10 beta on September 27. Stock Ubuntu 18.10 might be little sparse on visible changes (sans its spiffy […]
This post, Ubuntu Budgie 18.10 Looks Like an Essential Upgrade, was written by Joey Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.
News briefs for September 28, 2018.
The Tor Browser for Android (alpha) is now available. This mobile browser has the "highest privacy protections ever available and is on par with Tor Browser for desktop". You can download the alpha release from Google Play, or you can get the apk directly from here. You also will need Orbot, which is a proxy application to connect the Tor Browser for Android with the Tor network. (When the stable version is released early next year, you won't need to do this.)
In other Tor news, Tor is looking for a software developer for its anti-censorship team. If you're interested, see the Tor Project page for details and how to apply.
Feral Interactive announced that Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is coming to Linux and macOS in spring of 2019, shortly after the Windows release, which is scheduled for March 7, 2019. The game is the first of the Total War series to be set in ancient China. You can view the trailer here.
Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish) final beta has been released. This release includes images not only for Ubuntu Desktop, Server and Cloud, but also for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu. To upgrade to Ubuntu 18.10 beta from Ubuntu 18.04, go here. See the release notes for more information.
This week brought four new openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots that update packages like vim, Xen, Git and ImageMagick.
Sailfish 3 is coming soon. According to the Official Jolla Blog, it will be rolled out next month, with early access releases by the end of October. It will include many new features such as VPN improvements and MDM (Mobile Device Management) functionalities.
Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different.
The Bourne-Again SHell (Bash) was developed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) under the GNU Project, which gives it a somewhat special reputation within the Open Source community. Today, Bash is the default user shell on most Linux installations. Although Bash is just one of several well known UNIX shells, its wide distribution with Linux makes it an important tool to know.
The main purpose of a UNIX shell is to allow users to interact effectively with the system through the command line. A common shell action is to invoke an executable, which in turn causes the kernel to create a new running process. Shells have mechanisms to send the output of one program as input into another and facilities to interact with the filesystem. For example, a user can traverse the filesystem or direct the output of a program to a file.
Although Bash is primarily a command interpreter, it's also a programming language. Bash supports variables, functions and has control flow constructs, such as conditional statements and loops. However, all of this comes with some unusual quirks. This is because Bash attempts to fulfill two roles at the same time: to be a command interpreter and a programming language—and there is tension between the two.
All UNIX shells, including Bash, are primarily command interpreters. This trait has a deep history, stretching all the way to the very first shell and the first UNIX system. Over time, UNIX shells acquired the programming capabilities by evolution, and this has led to some unusual solutions for the programming environment. As many people come to Bash already having some background in traditional programming languages, the unusual perspective that Bash takes with programming constructs is a source of much confusion, as evidenced by many questions posted on Bash forums.
In this article, I discuss how programming constructs in Bash differ from traditional programming languages. For a true understanding of Bash, it's useful to understand how UNIX shells evolved, so I first review the relevant history, and then introduce several Bash features. The majority of this article shows how the unusual aspects of Bash programming originate from the need to blend the command interpreter function seamlessly with the capabilities of a programming language.
